Read on to discover the importance of fathers and suggestions on how to be a hands on dad.

Now here's the fact that shocks me - and to which knowing mothers everywhere will attest - researchers have found no single child-rearing task for which fathers bear primary responsibility. There's something screamingly, horribly, terribly wrong here.

First, an attitude shift is required. Fathering is not a part-time job. It is full time, both in attitude and in hands-on application.

As Margaret Mead said, the future of society rests on the learned nurturing behavior of its men. Get involved with the nurturing of your children. This includes bathing, feeding, transporting, and all the events of their lives.

Remember that fathering is a process not an event. A process requires time.

Consider how you were fathered. What do you want to do differently and what do you want to do the same?

If you have a child or children, then your challenge is to truly father your children, to be a father in the truest sense of the word.

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